“Nine months ended June 30, 2025 Cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended June 30, 2025 was $473.4 million, primarily driven by net cash payments of $124.4 million related to the PPI acquisition and capital expenditures of $360.5 million, pa…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
Post Holdings, Inc.
POST
Market read
Post Holdings, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 17 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 12 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue decreased 1.8% versus the comparable filing period.
- Egg-product sales fell as lower prices coincided with 9% lower volumes and normalized demand.
- Side-dish pricing lifted sales despite 1% lower volumes, creating a specific price-versus-volume exposure to compare.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if POST's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 17 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 12 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
- Revenue decreased 1.8% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 2.1 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 41.7% versus the comparable filing period.
- Egg-product sales fell as lower prices coincided with 9% lower volumes and normalized demand.
- Side-dish pricing lifted sales despite 1% lower volumes, creating a specific price-versus-volume exposure to compare.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 2.97x in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Pricing and mix has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Material customer WMT most recently reported revenue +6.9% year over year.
- Input and raw-material costs has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 39% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 33% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 9, 2026
81.02Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Sales of side dishes increased $11.7 million, or 3%, driven by 4% higher volumes primarily due to new private label product introductions.”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
“Segment profit for the nine months ended June 30, 2026 increased $15.2 million, or 28%, when compared to the prior year period, primarily driven by favorable product mix toward higher margin products, lower manufacturing costs of $2.6 million and a favorable…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
“These negative impacts were partially offset by lower raw material costs of $8.6 million.”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 0.6× · EV/sales 1.5×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 9 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for POST. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-08-06 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-08.
Capital and cash conversion
Cash conversion improved
Capital-spending intensity declined while free-cash-flow margin improved.
- Capital spending YoY
- -19.6%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +4.7%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- +6.5%
- FCF margin change
- +0.8 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
No thresholded improvement was identified.
What weakened
- Revenue decreased 1.8% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 2.1 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 41.7% versus the comparable filing period.
Filing receipts
“Sales of side dishes were up $2.8 million, or 4%, on 1% lower volumes, driven by higher average net selling prices primarily due to list price increases.”
“Nine months ended June 30, 2025 Cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended June 30, 2025 was $473.4 million, primarily driven by net cash payments of $124.4 million related to the PPI acquisition and capital expenditures of $360.5 million, partially offset by proceeds from the sale of property of $12.1 million.”
“Egg product sales were down $16.6 million, or 32%, driven by lower average net selling prices due to the lapping of HPAI pricing in the prior year period and 9% lower volumes primarily due to the normalization of egg demand in the current year period .”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind POST
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
SYY42.0% of POSTcustomerNov 21, 2025 ▾
“The largest customers of our Foodservice segment, Sysco and US Foods, accounted for 42.0% of the segment’s net sales in fiscal 2025.”
USFD42.0% of POSTcustomerNov 21, 2025 ▾
“The largest customers of our Foodservice segment, Sysco and US Foods, accounted for 42.0% of the segment’s net sales in fiscal 2025.”
Depended on by
PTONPeloton Interactive, Inc.supplierAug 7, 2025 ▾
“As such, we currently do not expect to add-back in the future any additional supplier settlements related to that effort.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
POST is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Packaged Foods. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.